The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-25
TIE BIG TOWER FOR PARIS.
A Protest Against It-ghe IDEAS Of
It's Constructor.

What is this hideous thing" the
Partisan artist asks the government in
the high-fown protest published this
morning, which has been DEVISED in
order to give foreign visitors an idea of
our Wanted taste?" N. EiffeI, the CON
structor of 1.-The hideous thing"
answers the question himself in the
interview, of which one OF our Paris
correspondents sends-us the following
report: Paris is to have the greatest
tower in the world, after all. u Eiffel's
tower, which the government has
authorized him to raise on the Champ
de Mars, will dominate all Paris, and
surpass, in fact. almoStdouble in height
the highest existing structure. Liberty,
to whom such homage was paid the
other week for her grandeur and great
ness is but pigmy of the statute world
compared with this gigantic monster.
Lord Nelson's monument is I6g feet.
he Monument" POP feet; Liberty. 30
feet; st. Paul's, $50 feet the great
pyramid, $50 feet: ST. Peter of Rome,
5O7 feet; the Cologne Cathedral, $40
reet; the Washington monument, at
present the highest. in the world, $50
feet, and the Paris tower is LOCO feet. "
In order to find out what NJ. Eiffel had
to say to the various objections which
have been made TO his tower, and to get
his opinion on its utility, kealled on him
the other day at his works at LeneElois-
Ferret. To him his great projection is
synonymous with the success Of the
exhibition.
They begin by declaring" be re-
marked, referring TO his adVe7saries,
that my tower is not French. It is
big enough and clumsy enough for the
English or Americans, but it is not our
style, they say. We are occupied most
with little artistic bibsLots, than giants of
bad taste like your tower. But though
we are occupied most with art and
music, that is no reason" said he,
emphatically, why we should not show
the world what we can do in the way of
great engineering projects. And as for
Its being In bad taste, why, On the
contrary, it will be one OF the chief
ornaments of the town. One of the
most frequent objections made to the
tower is that it is useless. That is
another error. Take its importance, for
instance, from meteorological point of
view. 1t is not every day that meteor
logists can get up l 900 feet above the
soil. This tower Will enable them to
study the decrease of temperature at
different 6eights, to observe the 7aria-
tons of winds. find out the quantity Of
rain that falls at different heights and
the density of the clouds. Indeed, in
all that relates to temperature, hygro-
metry, air currents, and the compost
ton of the air, the tower will afford
opportunities for study and research,
many Of which have hitherto been
impossible. 1t will be equally useful to
astronomers. Here experiences with
the spectroscope can be carried on with
great facility: the laws of .refraetion
and the physical aspect of the moon,
planets, and nebuia studied in most
favorable conditio 5. I have received
teshmonles from savants on all these
points. Then there is its U tiIity from a
military point of view. In the event of
another seige of Paris see how impor-
fant this tower would be. Conmunica-
lions could be kept up by means of
optic telegraph for a great distance
around Paris, for from the summit you
have magnificent panorama extending
from l20 10 $50 kilometsrs. Paris by
night, decorated and illuminated as it
will be during the exhibition, is sight
which before was only within the reach
of aeronauts. In fact the tower a i'll be
the chief attraction of the exhibition, IA
Pail Mall Gazette,